1st Edition

Human Memory and Amnesia (PLE: Memory)

Edited By Laird Cermak Copyright 1982
404 Pages
by Psychology Press

404 Pages
by Psychology Press

404 Pages
by Psychology Press

Originally published in 1982, this book brings together two areas of research previously studied in parallel, with little interaction (particularly in the US): normal memory processing and the amnesic syndrome. When trying to document the relationship between the two it became apparent that there was much crossover and duplication of effort in a number of areas: whether long-term memory and... Read more

Preface.  1. Daniel L. Schacter and Endel Tulving Amnesia and Memory Research  2. Robert G. Crowder General Forgetting Theory and the Locus of Amnesia  3. Laird S. Cermak The Long and Short of it in Amnesia  4. Elizabeth K. Warrington The Double Dissociation of Short- and Long-Term Memory Deficits  5. Stanley R. Parkinson Performance Deficits in Short-Term Memory Tasks: A Comparison of Amnesic Korsakoff Patients and the Aged  6. Larry L. Jacoby Knowing and Remembering Some Parallels in the Behavior of Korsakoff Patients and Normals  7. Felicia A. Huppert and Malcolm Piercy In Search of the Functional Locus of Amnesic Syndromes  8. Gordon Winocur The Amnesic Syndrome: A Deficit Cue Utilization  9. Frank Wood, Viola Ebert and Marcel Kinsbourne The Episodic-Semantic Memory Distinction in Memory and Amnesia: Clinical and Experimental Observations  10. Marcel Kinsbourne and Frank Wood Theoretical Considerations Regarding the Episodic-Semantic Memory Distinction  11. Judith P. Goggin Storage Differences Between Pictures and Words  12. Elizabeth F. Loftus Remembering Recent Experiences  13. Nelson Butters and Marilyn S. Albert Processes Underlying Failures to Recall Remote Events  14. Larry R. Squire and Neal J. Cohen Remote Memory, Retrograde Amnesia, and the Neuropsychology of Memory  15. Alan Baddeley Amnesia: A Minimal Model and an Interpretation  16. Morris Moscovitch Multiple Dissociations of Function in Amnesia  17. Laird S. Cermak Future Challenges.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Laird Cermak